February 2026

In setting up my CI/CD pipeline for some demo Docker containers recently, I ran into a frustrating, yet puzzling issue while trying to get Docker Swarm working. Indeed, it left me like "Johnny" Number 5 from the movie Short Circuit with questions, queries, and posers.

I have recently been creating some automatic jobs for doing database replication, and I started reflecting upon the differences between doing them using a cronjob vs. using a scheduled Jenkins job. I figured I might share my thoughts on the topic.